Optimus Prime Spotted Drying Laundry in Taiwan
Talk about Transformers going downhill. Leader of the mighty Autobots has gone from battling Decepticons and saving the world, to drying some guy’s laundry, in Taiwan. Wanting to do something nice for his son, a huge fan of Transformers’ Optimus Prime, that would also be useful around the house, a Taiwanese man built a 14-foot-tall […]
Japanese Invent Bionic Potato-Chip Grabber
Yup, leave it to the Japanese to invent something completely useless, yet totally cool. This time it’s a grabbing device for potato chips. Potato chips may be delicious, but you can’t really enjoy them without getting grease all over your fingers and then the keyboard. Well the Japanese have finally come up with a solution […]
Dayton Webber – The Limbless Warrior
11-year-old Dayton Webber lost all his limbs when he was just a baby, but that didn’t stop him from performing in wrestling matches and riding his skateboard. Young Dayton is a true inspiration. he lost his hands and legs when he was just 11-months-old, due to a life-threatening infection in his body. But for him, […]
Insect Candy – Crunchy Enough for You?
For over 25 years, California-based candy company HOTLIX has been creating weird sweets like chocolate-dipped-scorpions and bug lollipops. Think of it as a real-life Willy Wonka nightmare. The first insect candy created by HOTLIX was a tequila-flavored lollipop with a worm inside it. This was back in 1982, but fast-forward to present day and HOTLIX […]
Artist Creates Star Portraits Using Prescription Pills
In an attempt to highlight celebrities’ problems with drugs, talented American artist Jason Mecier has created a series of portraits made of differently colored prescription pills. Artists like Courtney Love and Kelly Osbourne fought with their drug addictions for a long time, while Michael Jackson and Heath Ledger lost their lives because of them. By […]
Soccer Tournament for the Blind
If you thought there was no way blind people could play soccer, think again. There are even official soccer tournaments for the blind, held between national teams. The latest tournament took place in the Sokolniki district of Moscow. Four international teams gathered for a series of matches “in the dark”. It’s hard to understand how […]
The Basketball-Playing Elephants of Thailand
I don’t know how they do it, but Thai trainers get elephants to do the most amazing things. After the amazing elephant painters, from the National Elephant Institute, it’s time for the extraordinary basketball-playing elepahnts. Malie and Toktak are the stars of the Island Safari Center, on Koh Samui Island. After undergoing months of rigorous […]
Models Look Even More Delicious in Chocolate Outfits
As if ripping a model’s clothes off with your teeth wasn’t cool enough, imagine if her clothes were made entirely out of delicious chocolate. Guess what, your dreams have become a reality! Well…without the ripping clothes off part. What’s hotter that Asian models dressed in chocolate? Can’t think of anything right now, and if you […]
Kris Kuksi’s Recycled Toy Sculptures
We’ve seen recycled toys used in sculptures before, but Kris Kuksi’s macabre art is on a whole other level. Born in Springfield, Missouri, Kris had a rough childhood, isolated and secluded with his blue-collar mom, two older brothers and an alcoholic stepfather. This was most likely what caused him to retreat in his own imagination […]
The Skiing Witches of Belalp Hexe
I remember a time when witches flew on brooms. Nowadays they’re flying on the ski-slopes, using their brooms as sticks. What’s the occult world coming to? Every year, between January 10-16, over 1,500 people from Switzerland and other European countries gather at Belalp, for one of the wackiest downhill skiing races in the world. The […]
Chinese Sculptores Create Avatar Mud Figures
Avatar fever is infecting everyone these days and a big country like China wasn’t going to be spared. 15 talented sculptors spent 10 days working on two 3-meters-tall sculptures from James Cameron’s blockbuster movie. One of them is of Corporal Jake Sully and the other of his main Na’Vi squeeze, Princess Neytiri. The Avatar mud […]
Bottle House Built in Mexico
This is not the first bottle house featured on Oddity Central, but it’s definitely the most impressive looking. After finding these pics on several spam sites that posted no link to the original source, I spent quite a while trying to find some info. Finally I discovered the photos were uploaded by someone on Instructables […]
The World’s Largest Pokemon Collection
21-year-old Lisa Courtney, from Welwyn Garden City, UK, has the world’s biggest Pokemon collection in the world, according to the newest edition of Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition. Lisa received her title in June 2009, when her collection numbered 12,113 different Pokemon items. Now the passionate collector says she owns over 13,400 items. Since new […]
Dude Builds His Own Rolls Royce Phantom
24-year-old Ruslan Moukanov managed to prove it’s not all about the money when you want to drive the car of your dreams. For the young Kazakh, the exclusive Rolls Royce Phantom seemed like an unreachable dream, when he first saw some photos of it, years ago, in the local library. Since raising 500,000 euros was […]
Mike Libby’s Steampunk Insects
Stop! Don’t even think about screaming “Photoshopped!” because Mike Libby’s Insect Lab is 100% real. And so are his incredible Steampunk insects. Mike began his unusual project on a day like any other, when he found an intact dead beetle. Thinking about how the little bug functioned as a mechanical device, he remembered he had […]